The state is set to get two new All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and five new medical colleges during the current 2018-19 fiscal.
The Out Patient department (OPD) of AIIMS at Raebareli - the lok Sabha constituency of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, will commence operations from July next while the OPD of AIIMS Gorakhpur - the native town of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is expected to start working from March, 2019.
As many as 13 new medical colleges will be opened in the state in the next three years. Besides, the construction work on super specialty blocks in Kanpur and Agra medical colleges would start functioning from June.
During the current 2018-19 fiscal, the existing district hospitals at Faizabad, Basti, Bahriach, Firozabad and Shahjahanpur would be upgraded as medical colleges. The academic session at five new medical colleges would commence from 2019-20.
The state government has provided additional beds and equipment for BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur for treatment of Encephalitis patients and transferred 1.56 acres of land for the construction of Regional Medical Research Centre to be financed and run by Union Health ministry.
On Friday, Medical Education minister Ashutosh Tandon told media persons that only 13 medical colleges were set up in the state during the last 70 years while the BJP government is set to establish 13 new medical colleges in the next three years.
Tandon said that eight more district hospitals have been identified for upgradation as medical colleges and an MOU has been signed with Union ministry of Health in this regard.
The minister said that the cost of upgrading district hospitals to medical colleges would be around Rs 200 crore while the cost of new medical college would be over Rs 600 crore. He said that the new medical colleges would be set up under a Centrally -sponsored scheme and 60 percent cost will be borne by the Centre.
Tandon further said, “The existing infrastructure at SGPGI, lucknow was being upgraded with 500 new beds, including 210-bed Emergency Medicine departments, 180-bed Renal Transplant Centre, 110 -bed liver Transplant Centre. Robotic surgery facility will also be provided at SGPGI and was expected to be made operational in the next six months.”
The Medical Education minister said that additional facilities at the SCPGI have been created at the cost of Rs 473 cror and funds have been provided for the construction of additional 125 beds in OPD. He said that the second Trauma Centre has been transferred to SGPGI and 60-bed centres would soon be made operational. He said that in the next one year, Trauma Centre would be expanded to 100 bed capacity.
Tandon said that a post-graduate department of Plastic Surgery has been set up at KG Medical University for treatment of burn patients and those suffering from mutilation of body organs due to accidents and burns. The facilities in Plastic Surgery department include 24 beds for Burn Reconstructive Surgery unit, 16-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and 20-bed general wards. He informed that the operation theatre, ICU and Dialysis unit has started working at the super-specialty Children Hospital and Post Graduatge Institute in NOIDA.
The minister further said that an MOU has been signed with Tata Cancer Hospital, Mumbai for operation and management of Cancer Institute in lucknow. He said that an agreement has also been signed with Atomic Energy Regulation Board for setting up Radiology unit at the Cancer Institute.